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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t really understand the complaint. Full-time working parent family here and we send the kids to early morning practice. Meets are in the evening or on weekends and yes it’s a lot, but so are all the other sports throughout the year. There’s no perfect set up for extracurricular activities and we are all making choices. Summer is hard, so is the school year. There is not a month or activity at any point during the year that we are not trying to flex schedules or piece childcare together. And we are not in travel sports and try to do one or two things at a time. There only so many hours in the day to make adjustments for everyone’s unique situation.[/quote]

It works because your pool offers an early morning practice!  I would happily take my DC at 7am, I could then drop them at camp and go to work, but their practice isn’t until 1030am.  We hired someone to take them from camp to practice this summer along with a few other families, but that only works because the camp and pool are within walking distance of each other.  Maybe we’ll see about trying to find a summer nanny once my youngest is in school.  DH has very little job flexibility and there’s only so much I can do on my own.

I get that there are competing forces at play with pool use, but I wish our pool wasn’t so resistant to the early morning practice idea. We’ve had the same coaches and parent reps for over a decade and I get the sense there is just resistance to change.

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